The Secret Adversary AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 16 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Secret Adversary AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 16 Further Adventures of Tommy From a darkness punctuated with throbbing stabs of fire Tommy dragged his senses slowly back to life. When he at last opened his eyes he was conscious of nothing but an excruciating pain through his temples. He was vaguely aware of unfamiliar surroundings. Where was he What had happened He blinked feebly. This was not his bedroom at the Ritz. And what the devil was the matter with his head Damn said Tommy and tried to sit up. He had remembered. He was in that sinister house in Soho. He uttered a groan and fell back. Through his almost-closed lids he reconnoitred carefully. He is coming to remarked a voice very near Tommy s ear. He recognized it at once for that of the bearded and efficient German and lay artistically inert. He felt that it would be a pity to come round too soon and until the pain in his head became a little less acute he felt quite incapable of collecting his wits. Painfully he tried to puzzle out what had happened. Obviously somebody must have crept up behind him as he listened and struck him down with a blow on the head. They knew him now for a spy and would in all probability give him short shrift. Undoubtedly he was in a tight place. Nobody knew where he was therefore he need expect no outside assistance and must depend solely on his own wits. Well here goes murmured Tommy to himself and repeated his former remark. Damn he observed and this time succeeded in sitting up. In a minute the German stepped forward and placed a glass to his lips with the brief command Drink. Tommy obeyed. The potency of the draught made him choke but it cleared his brain in a marvellous manner. He was lying on a couch in the room in which the meeting had been held. On one side of him was the German on the other the villainous-faced doorkeeper who had let him in. The others were grouped together at a little distance away. But Tommy missed one face. The man known as Number One was no longer of .
